The Oncology department at Alexis Hospital is equipped with most advanced Varian True Beam SVC Linear accelerator. It has been intricately networked to CT scan simulator (Siemens 128 slice) and MRI scan (3 tesla) with DICOM image transfer capability makes it one of the state- of-the-art Oncology setup with all treatment under one roof.
High Precision Radiotherapy treatment that are available:
- SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy)
- SRS (Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- FSRT (Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy)
- IGRT (Image Guided Radiotherapy)
- Gated RAPIDARC (VMAT Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy) with Respiratory Gating
- IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy)
- 3DCRT (3D Conformal Radiotherapy)
- Electron therapy
- 2D (2 Dimensional Radiotherapy) Or Palliative Radiotherapy
SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy) Indications
- Early Lung cancer
- Metastatic Liver
- Metastatic Spine tumour
- Re-irradiation Or Recurrent Head and neck tumour
- Prostate Cancer (Localized)
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Benign(Meningioma) & Malignant brain tumour (High grade gliomas, GBM)
Early stage cancers curable with radiation therapy alone:
- Prostate carcinomas
- Lung carcinomas(Non-Small Cell)
- Cervical carcinomas
- Head and neck carcinomas
- Anal canal carcinomas
Early cancers curable with radiation therapy in combination with surgery and chemotherapy
- Breast carcinomas
- Rectal and anal carcinomas
- Local advanced cervix carcinomas
- Locally advanced head and neck carcinomas
- Locally advanced lung carcinomas
- Lymphomas
- CNS tumours
- Soft tissue sarcomas
- Paediatric tumours
